It doesn’t have to take years to deepen your connection, boost your communication, and enhance your relational wellbeing. You can see lasting changes in your connection, communication, intimacy, and understanding in one weekend or a few weeks with a couples therapy intensive!

What is a couples therapy intensive and what makes it special?

Traditional couples therapy can be a wonderful choice for many couples but high-conflict couples, couples with issues that are causing a lot of distress or tension, and couples struggling with increasing attachment related issues might find that they need to see progress and relief sooner. It can also be a challenge for couples with busy schedules due to work or parenting who have difficulty carving out that weekly time for months.

Intensives change

Traditional Couples Therapy

• 60 - 90 minute sessions once a week

• Initial assessment and then 3-4 sessions to get into the root issues and deeper stuff

• A month or more of time passing with issues evolving or getting worse and pain continuing

• Must carve out time for weekly or bi-weekly session for months and months

Intensives are amazing for couples that need a major boost, breakthrough, or significant step forward so that they can continue to grow, heal, and progress with less stress and relational damage and more relaxation and secure functioning.

Couples therapy intensives involve extended, immersive, focused sessions that all the time to get to the root of your relationship challenges and actually do real work on them before the session ends. Since sessions are extended and often closer together it doesn’t feel like you are spending each session catching up on the latest challenges and disagreements and trying to pick up where you left off. Instead all that collaboration between you, your partner, and your therapist turns into changes that you experience as more relational security, deeper love, greater care, and increased fulfillment in your relationship.

Couples Therapy Intensive

• Short-term: your intensive can last from a few days to 6 weeks

• Effective: we start with an initial 2 hour assessment and goal setting to make sure we make the most of your time

• Immersive: sessions that last anywhere from 2 hours to 5 hours and a highly engaged with time for unpacking patterns, practicing new ways of connecting and communicating, and activating emotional triggers in a solution focused and relationship building manner

• Targeted: we focus on the areas that are most impactful and explore patterns of interaction, identify and address underlying issues, and develop new tools and strategies for a healthier and more fulfilling relationship

• Customizable: we can do multiple 4 or 5-hour sessions over a weekend, 2-hour long sessions multiple times a week for a few weeks, or any number of combinations based on your needs

The approach that I use in my couples work combines attachment-based couples therapy, somatic therapy, and PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy).